birth name | Susan Abigail Tomalin |
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birth place | New York City, New York, U.S. |
birth date | October 04, 1946 |
years active | 1969–present |
occupation | Actress |
spouse | Chris Sarandon (1967–1979, divorced) |
partner | Tim Robbins (1988–2009, separated) |
children | Eva AmurriJack RobbinsMiles Robbins }} |
In 1974, she co-starred in The Front Page, with the comedy duo Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and Lovin' Molly with Anthony Perkins. She appeared in the cult favorite musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). That same year, she starred in The Great Waldo Pepper, opposite Robert Redford. In 1978, Sarandon played the mother of a child prostitute, who was played by Brooke Shields, in Pretty Baby.
Her most controversial film appearance was in The Hunger in 1983, a modern vampire story in which she had a lesbian sex scene with Catherine Deneuve. The film was a critical and commercial flop but gained a cult following. Sarandon played one of the leads in the 1987 dark comedy/fantasy film The Witches of Eastwick, opposite Jack Nicholson. Sarandon starred in the 1988 film Bull Durham, which became a huge commercial and critical success. In 1989, she co-starred with Marlon Brando in A Dry White Season. In 1990 she starred in "White Palace" with James Spader.
Sarandon has received five Academy Award nominations, for best actress, in Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and The Client (1994). In 1995, she won the award for her performance in Dead Man Walking..
In 1994, she was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award.
Additional performances in film include Little Women (1994), Compromising Positions, Stepmom (1998), Anywhere but Here (1999), Cradle Will Rock (1999), The Banger Sisters (2002), Shall We Dance (2004), Alfie (2004), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), Elizabethtown (2005) and Enchanted (2007).
Sarandon has appeared in two episodes of The Simpsons, one as herself ("Bart Has Two Mommies") and another as a ballet teacher, "Homer vs. Patty and Selma". She has made appearances on comedies such as Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live, Chappelle's Show, 30 Rock, and Rescue Me.
Sarandon has contributed the narration to some two dozen documentary film, many of which dealt with social and political issues; in addition, she has served as the presenter on many installments of the PBS documentary series, Independent Lens. In 2007, she hosted and presented Mythos, a series of lectures by the late American mythology professor Joseph Campbell.
Sarandon joined the cast of the adaptation of The Lovely Bones, opposite Rachel Weisz, and appeared with her daughter, Eva Amurri, in Middle of Nowhere; both of the films were filmed in 2007.
In June 2010, Sarandon joined the cast of new HBO pilot The Miraculous Year. She will play the role of Patty Atwood, a Broadway director/choreographer.
In the late 1970s, Sarandon had a two-year relationship with director Louis Malle, who directed her in Pretty Baby and Atlantic City.
In the mid-1980s, Sarandon dated Italian filmmaker Franco Amurri, with whom she had a daughter on March 15, 1985, actress Eva Amurri.
From 1988 to 2009, Sarandon was in a relationship with actor Tim Robbins, whom she met while they were filming Bull Durham. They have two sons — Jack Henry (born 1989) and Miles Guthrie (born 1992).
In 1995, Sarandon was one of many Hollywood actors, directors and writers who were interviewed for the documentary The Celluloid Closet, which looked at how Hollywood films have depicted homosexuality. In 1999, she was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In that capacity, she has actively supported the organization's global advocacy, as well as the work of the Canadian UNICEF Committee.
During the 2000 election, Sarandon supported Ralph Nader's run for President, serving as a co-chair of the National Steering Committee of Nader 2000.
During the 2004 election campaign, she withheld support for Nader's bid, being among several "Nader 2000 Leaders" who signed a petition that urged voters to vote for Democratic Party candidate John Kerry. After the 2004 election, Sarandon called for US elections to be monitored by international entities.
Sarandon and Robbins both took an early stance against the 2003 invasion of Iraq, with Sarandon stating that she was firmly against the concept of the war as a pre-emptive strike. Prior to a 2003 protest sponsored by the United for Peace and Justice coalition, she said that many Americans "do not want to risk their children or the children of Iraq". Sarandon was one of the first to appear in a series of political ads sponsored by TrueMajority, an organization established by Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream founder Ben Cohen. Also in 2003, Sarandon appeared in a "Love is Love is Love" commercial, which promoted the acceptance of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.
In 2004, she served on the advisory committee for the group 2004 Racism Watch. She hosted a section of the Live 8 concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2005. In 2006, she was one of eight women who were selected to carry in the Olympic flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games, in Turin, Italy.
Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother's Day protest, which was sponsored by Code Pink; she has expressed interest in portraying Sheehan in a film. In January 2007, she appeared with Robbins and Jane Fonda at an anti-war rally in Washington, D.C. in support of a Congressional measure to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq.
In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, Sarandon and Tim Robbins campaigned for John Edwards in the New Hampshire communities of Hampton, Bedford and Dover. When asked at We Vote '08 Kickoff Party "What would Jesus do this primary season", Sarandon said, "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards."
On March 12, 2011 Susan spoke before a crowd in Madison, Wisconsin during a protest of Governor Scott Walker and his "Budget Repair Bill".
+ Television | |||
! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Notes |
1970–1971 | Patrice Kahlman | ||
1971 | Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law | Joyce | 1 episode |
1972 | Search for Tomorrow | Sarah Fairbanks | unknown episodes |
1974 | F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' | Ailie Calhoun | television film |
1974 | Kate | television film | |
1974 | June Moon | Eileen | television film |
1974 | Pasty Johnson | television film | |
1975 | television film | ||
1982 | Who Am I This Time? | Helene Shaw | television film |
1984 | Oxbridge Blues | Natalie | TV mini-series |
1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Beauty | 1 episode Beauty And The Beast |
1985 | Livilla | TV mini-series | |
1985 | Mussolini and I | television film | |
1986 | Women of Valor | Col. Margaret Ann Jessup | television film |
1994 | All Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! | Bitsy | |
1995 | Ballet Teacher | 1 episode | |
1999 | Earthly Possessions | Charlotte Emory | television film |
2001 | Friends | Cecilia Monroe/Jessica Lockhart | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series |
2001 | Cool Women In History | The Host | |
2002 | Malcolm in the Middle | Meg | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress – Comedy Series |
2003 | Ice Bound: A Woman's Survival at the South Pole | Dr. Jerri Nielsen | television film |
2003 | Frank Herbert's Children of Dune | TV miniseries | |
2004 | Chappelle's Show | herself | Season 3 |
2004 | Troy: The Passion of Helen | The Host | |
2005 | The Exonerated | Sunny Jacobs | television film |
2005 | Mad TV | 2 episodes | |
2006–2007 | Alicia | ||
2007 | Bernard and Doris | Doris Duke | television filmNominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a MovieNominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated—Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television FilmNominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie |
2009 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Andy Samberg's character | SNL Digital Short - Motherlover |
2009 | Nora | 1 episode | |
2010 | herself | 1 episode | |
2010 | Janet Good | television filmNominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a MovieNominated - Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie | |
2010 | Chelsea Lately | Herself | Appeared 7/20/2010 |
2010 | Mrs. Joe Kent | Uncredited voice role, 10/27/2010 | |
2011 | Saturday Night Live | Mother of Andy Samberg's character | SNL Digital Short - 3-Way (The Golden Rule) |
+ Documentaries | ||
! Year | ! Title | ! Role |
1983 | When the Mountains Tremble | |
1990 | Through the Wire | narrator |
1993 | Wildnerness: The Last Stand | narrator |
1994 | School of the Americas Assassins | narrator |
1995 | The Celluloid Closet | |
1996 | Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press | narrator |
1997 | narrator | |
1997 | Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins | narrator |
1997 | 187: Documented | narrator |
1999 | For Love of Julian | narrator |
2000 | Light Keeps Me Company | |
2000 | Iditarod: A Far Distant Place | narrator |
2000 | narrator | |
2000 | This Is What Democracy Looks Like | narrator |
2000 | Dying to be Thin | narrator |
2001 | Uphill All the Way | narrator |
2001 | 900 Women | narrator |
2001 | narrator | |
2001 | Rudyland | narrator |
2001 | Islamabad: Rock City | narrator |
2001 | Ghosts of Attica | narrator |
2001 | Last Party 2000 | |
2002 | narrator | |
2002 | Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | narrator |
2003 | XXI Century | |
2003 | narrator | |
2003 | Burma: Anatomy of Terror | narrator |
2003 | Journey of the Heart: The Life of Henri Nouwen | narrator |
2004 | Fragile Hopes from the Killing Fields | narrator |
2005 | narrator | |
2005 | On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism | |
2006 | Secrets of the Code | narrator |
2006 | Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars | narrator |
2006 | herself | |
2007 | This Child of Mine | narrator |
2007 | World Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies | |
2009 | Herself | |
2010 | Herself |
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